Cisco Contracts in Reading

Cisco
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading requiring knowledge or experience of Cisco products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cisco over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within Cisco Systems, Inc.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 41 37 50
Rank change year-on-year -4 +13 -11
Contract jobs citing Cisco 19 58 37
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 3.18% 4.87% 3.55%
As % of the Vendors category 5.90% 10.09% 6.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 42 13
10th Percentile £295 £335 £440
25th Percentile £338 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -12.20% +2.50% -1.86%
75th Percentile £516 £608 £570
90th Percentile £554 - £572
Berkshire median daily rate £450 £513 £450
% change year-on-year -12.20% +13.89% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £76.99 -
Berkshire median hourly rate £19.00 £49.25 £56.00
% change year-on-year -61.42% -12.06% +115.38%

All Vendors
Reading

Cisco falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 322 575 535
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 53.94% 48.24% 51.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 220 358 369
10th Percentile £350 £213 £372
25th Percentile £456 £413 £489
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £595 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year +8.18% -4.35% +11.33%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £685
90th Percentile £700 £688 £725
Berkshire median daily rate £550 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +7.32% -6.82% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 23 15
10th Percentile £33.82 £52.90 £29.10
25th Percentile £41.05 £56.38 £47.95
Median hourly rate £53.10 £60.14 £64.68
Median % change year-on-year -11.71% -7.01% +115.58%
75th Percentile £65.14 £62.03 £66.21
90th Percentile £72.37 £64.66 £73.45
Berkshire median hourly rate £42.78 £58.30 £60.88
% change year-on-year -26.63% -4.23% +21.75%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

Job postings citing Cisco as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Reading.

Job vacancy trend for Cisco in Reading

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cisco in Reading.

Daily rate trend for Cisco in Reading

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Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cisco in Reading over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cisco in Reading

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Cisco in Reading.

Hourly rate trend for Cisco in Reading

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (10.53%) Appian
Cloud Services
1 1 (5.26%) AWS
1 1 (5.26%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 7 (36.84%) Firewall
1 7 (36.84%) Network Security
1 7 (36.84%) VLAN
2 6 (31.58%) BGP
2 6 (31.58%) VPN
3 5 (26.32%) OSPF
3 5 (26.32%) TCP/IP
3 5 (26.32%) Wi-Fi
4 4 (21.05%) LAN
4 4 (21.05%) WAN
4 4 (21.05%) Wireless
5 3 (15.79%) 802.11
5 3 (15.79%) MPLS
6 2 (10.53%) Cisco IOS
6 2 (10.53%) SD-WAN
7 1 (5.26%) 5G
7 1 (5.26%) Cisco ASA
7 1 (5.26%) Cisco Firepower
7 1 (5.26%) Ethernet VPN
7 1 (5.26%) Junos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.26%) MongoDB
1 1 (5.26%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (5.26%) GitLab
1 1 (5.26%) JIRA
General
1 5 (26.32%) Social Skills
1 5 (26.32%) Telecoms
2 3 (15.79%) Public Sector
3 2 (10.53%) Manufacturing
4 1 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.26%) Electronics
4 1 (5.26%) Finance
4 1 (5.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (5.26%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 6 (31.58%) Network Engineer
2 3 (15.79%) Senior
2 3 (15.79%) Wireless Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Product Owner
3 2 (10.53%) Test Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Architect
4 1 (5.26%) Cisco Architect
4 1 (5.26%) Cisco Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Consultant
4 1 (5.26%) Design Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) IP Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) IP Network Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Network Security Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Procurement Consultant
4 1 (5.26%) Security Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Senior Network Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Technical Architect
4 1 (5.26%) Technical Support
4 1 (5.26%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (15.79%) 802.1X
2 1 (5.26%) JSON
2 1 (5.26%) NETCONF
2 1 (5.26%) REST
2 1 (5.26%) RESTCONF
2 1 (5.26%) RFC 2544
2 1 (5.26%) SOAP
2 1 (5.26%) XML
2 1 (5.26%) YAML
2 1 (5.26%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.53%) Product Ownership
2 1 (5.26%) Data Centre
2 1 (5.26%) Onboarding
2 1 (5.26%) Security Operations Centre
2 1 (5.26%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.26%) CentOS
1 1 (5.26%) Linux
1 1 (5.26%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (26.32%) Security Operations
1 5 (26.32%) SIEM
2 4 (21.05%) Network Design
2 4 (21.05%) Proactive Monitoring
2 4 (21.05%) Security Monitoring
3 3 (15.79%) CI/CD
3 3 (15.79%) Computer Science
3 3 (15.79%) Data Collection
3 3 (15.79%) Scrum
3 3 (15.79%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (15.79%) Use Case
4 2 (10.53%) Backlog Prioritisation
4 2 (10.53%) Cloud Security
4 2 (10.53%) Data-Driven Decision Making
4 2 (10.53%) Decision-Making
4 2 (10.53%) Product Roadmap
4 2 (10.53%) Product Strategy
4 2 (10.53%) Roadmaps
4 2 (10.53%) Scaled Agile Framework
4 2 (10.53%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 6 (31.58%) Python
2 1 (5.26%) SQL
2 1 (5.26%) VB
Qualifications
1 6 (31.58%) CCNP
1 6 (31.58%) Cisco Certification
2 5 (26.32%) Degree
3 4 (21.05%) CCSA
3 4 (21.05%) CCSE
3 4 (21.05%) Check Point Certification
4 3 (15.79%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (15.79%) Security Cleared
5 2 (10.53%) SC Cleared
6 1 (5.26%) CCDA
6 1 (5.26%) CCDP
6 1 (5.26%) CCIE
6 1 (5.26%) CCNA
6 1 (5.26%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.53%) NIST
2 1 (5.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (5.26%) QA
System Software
1 1 (5.26%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (26.32%) Ansible
2 1 (5.26%) CASB
2 1 (5.26%) FortiGate
2 1 (5.26%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (31.58%) Palo Alto
2 5 (26.32%) Aruba
3 4 (21.05%) CheckPoint
3 4 (21.05%) Juniper
4 3 (15.79%) AirMagnet
4 3 (15.79%) Ekahau
4 3 (15.79%) Extreme Networks
4 3 (15.79%) Meraki
5 2 (10.53%) Blue Prism
5 2 (10.53%) Nokia
5 2 (10.53%) Rakuten
6 1 (5.26%) Citrix
6 1 (5.26%) F5
6 1 (5.26%) HP
6 1 (5.26%) Kenna
6 1 (5.26%) Microsoft
6 1 (5.26%) Rapid7
6 1 (5.26%) SAP
6 1 (5.26%) Splunk